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Absentee ballots bring opportunity, headaches

Daily Free Press Admin November 1, 2012

This is the second in a series on absentee voting within the youth vote series for the 2012 election. The decision to vote absentee or to vote in-person is an important question come election season...

Boston homeless shelters expanding capacity ahead of Hurricane Sandy

Daily Free Press Admin October 28, 2012

With Massachusetts in a state of emergency in anticipation for Hurricane Sandy, Boston’s homeless shelters are preparing to care for the city’s most vulnerable residents. City homeless shelters started...

Michigan absentee voting rule deters students

Daily Free Press Admin October 25, 2012

This is the first in a two-part story in the youth vote series focusing on absentee voting. Had it not been for his mother, James Ferritto would not have been able to vote this November. Before heading...

Post-doctoral student suffers mild injuries after chemical spill in ENG building

Daily Free Press Admin October 16, 2012

A Boston University post-doctoral chemistry associate student was injured in a chemical spill on the eighth floor of the Life Science and Engineering Building at about 4 p.m. on Monday, said BU spokeman...

MULTIMEDIA: On procrastination

Daily Free Press Admin April 22, 2012

By Lauren Dezenski and Sam Sarkisian, Multimedia Staff With only eight class days left in the semester, finals are just around the corner. We asked students in the GSU on Saturday afternoon how they...

Hell yeah: Hunger Games

Daily Free Press Admin March 21, 2012

By Lauren Dezenski, Features Associate Editor—Blog With The Hunger Games movie about to hit the theaters (showings start Friday at midnight), the world needs a good dissection of the most popular post-apocalyptic...

Awkward middle school/high school photos featuring Audrey Fain

Daily Free Press Admin March 5, 2012

By Lauren Dezenski, Features Associate Editor--Blog Audrey Fain is one half of the Daily Free Press’ intrepid team of chief photographers, and lucky for us, her awkwardness has been captured by her...

Multimedia: Addressing sexual assault @ BU

Daily Free Press Admin March 2, 2012

By Lauren Dezenski and Sam Sarkisian, Daily Free Press Multimedia Team The Daily Free Press asked BU students to describe in one sentence how the administration can better address the recent sexual assault...

Cleanin’ out my [Google] closet

Daily Free Press Admin February 28, 2012

By Lauren Dezenski, Features Associate Editor—Blog Take advantage of the extra day offered by Leap Year this year and use it to clear your Google web search history. This week, Internet behemoth Google...

Awks high school photos, featuring Sofiya Mahdi

Daily Free Press Admin February 27, 2012

By Lauren Dezenski, Features Associate Editor--Blog Hailing from just across the pond, Sofiya is the FreeP’s resident foreigner. Though she doesn’t have an accent, making it super awkward when you...

Then and now: Awks pictures featuring Campus News Editor Steph Solis

Daily Free Press Admin February 13, 2012

By Lauren Dezenski, Features Associate Editor--Blog While Steph may or may not have actually wanted to participate in this post (for some reason the editorial board is now fearing these Awkward posts…)...

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